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Pokemon debuted in 1996 and since then has become a main stay in the world of cartoons, comics, and video games. Despite the fact that it’s two decades old, the newly released smartphone game (Pokemon Go) is proof that the franchise is doing better than ever. How will this game and its augmented reality technology impact the future? Let’s dig in to see how it’ll impact our actual reality.

NASA’s JUNO spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit on July 4, 2016. Here in the United States we were celebrating a historic event when we left the king, but over 500 million miles away JUNO was just arriving at the king of the planets. It makes for some pretty interesting perspective for Independence Day! Regardless, this story made headlines all over the planet.

While distant glaciers melting and homeless polar bears have been a major focus of the of the mainstream climate change dialogue, our home here in Virginia has not quite made it onto big lists and front page articles, until now.

In 1879 Thomas Edison unveiled the light bulb at a dramatic ceremony in Times Square. Since then humanity has been obsessed with our 24 hour access to light. We’ve filled our homes, cars, streets, highways, and parking lots with an abundance of lights. While controlled light has been very handy in keeping us safe and entertained at night, there have been some pretty big issues as well.

As summer temperatures begin to rise we turn to our old friend air conditioning, but what about all those people around the world without electricity? Extreme heat causes many problems and impacts millions of people around the world. A new idea was recently proposed to cool off homes without electricity and clean up trash at the same time.